New ScientistUK CONTACTClaire BowlesNew Scientist Press Office, London:Tel: +44(0)20 7331 2751 or email claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk E We may have to abandon our dreams of colonising space THE skeletons within living cells may not […]
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Statement by the Vice President (on the launch of Zvezda)
Peggy Wilhide Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1898) James E. Kennedy The White House (Phone: 202/456-7035) RELEASE: 00-104 This morning’s successful launch of the Zvezda service module from Baikonur, Kazakhstan marks […]
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Orbital’s MDA Subsidiary Completes $57 Million Initial Public Offering; Company Remains MDA’s Majority Shareholder with About 55% Ownership Stake
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that its MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) subsidiary completed its initial public stock offering when its shares began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange […]
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Spectrolab Sets New World Record With Space Solar Cell Efficiency of 29 Percent
Spectrolab, Inc., has once again set a new world record by manufacturing satellite solar cells able to convert 29 percent of the sun’s rays into spacecraft power. This surpasses its […]
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UCSD Chemists Find Extraterrestrial “Anomaly” In Earth’s Rocks
Media Contact: Kim McDonald, kimmcdonald@ucsd.edu, (858) 534-7572 Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered an isotope anomaly previously thought unique to meteorites and other extraterrestrial rocks in […]
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Titan here we come – Want to scout a giant moon for signs of life? Then send in a helicopter, says Ralph Lorenz
UK CONTACT — Claire Bowles, New Scientist Press Office, London claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk 44-207-331-2751 US CONTACT — New Scientist Washington office newscidc@idt.net 202-452-1178 http://www.newscientist.com WAY OUT beyond the icy rings of Saturn […]
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Sensenbrenner Statement on Today’s Successful Launch of the Space Station’s Service Module
Committee on Science F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., CHAIRMAN Ralph M. Hall, Texas, Ranking Democrat www.house.gov/science/welcome.htm July 12, 2000 Press Contacts: Jeff Lungren (Jeff.Lungren@mail.house.gov) Jeff Donald (Jeffrey.Donald@mail.house.gov) (202) 225-4275 WASHINGTON, D.C. […]
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Pulsars ‘lying about their ages,’ astronomers say, throwing theories into doubt
Contact: Elizabeth Thomson thomson@mit.edu 617-258-5402 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dave Finley, National Radio Astronomy Observatory PIO dfinley@nrao.edu 505-835-7302 Pulsars, those spinning, superdense neutron stars that send powerful “lighthouse beams” of […]
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Hubble Watches Star Tear Apart its Neighborhood
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a view of a stellar demolition zone in our Milky Way Galaxy: a massive star, nearing the end of its life, tearing apart the […]
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International Astronauts Honored for Outstanding Contributions to Space Program
Doug Peterson Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX (281/483-5111) Release: J00-42 Canadian Astronauts Dafydd (Dave) Rhys Williams, and Julie Payette, international members of NASAís astronaut corps, were honored last month for […]
